Asus Eee PC 1005HA

Introduction

As of this date, 12NOV2010, I am beginning a full wipe and install of the Asus 1005HAB Eee PC. So far, using Mandriva One Spring 2010 Edition and the KDE 4 kernal, I haven't gotten far due to the battery issues that I have had OOB. I'm running a Live CD from a bootable flash drive, which has gotten the Live off the drive environment working fairly well. I will continue updating this page as I go along, awaiting the next charger for the laptop, so may take three to four days.

*NOTE- Untested only means that full function checks have not been completed. Tested, working is not a 100% guarantee that every application out there won't have any issues, remember, this is Linux in a Windows world people.

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Summary

Ubuntu 14.04LTS runs great on this mini laptop, had to use it for work for almost 2 months when my Dell XPS M1530 crashed, It would not do the job with Windows 7!!!! Ubuntu pushes it hard, but it has never let me down in almost 5 months…Hope this helps someone revive an Asus Eee PC 1005HA!!!

Don't trash it!!! Load Linux on it and run Free!!

Alan U. Kennington, 2012/11/27 04:46

I tried a third time to install OpenSuSE 12.2 from DVD on the Asus Eee 1005HA PC and it worked! This time I went into the boot configuration of the installation scripts, and I added the MBR to the list of locations to install boot software to. Then everything booted wonderfully.

Now everything works on this machine. The sleep and hibernate are perfect, which is what I was most concerned about. The video (webcam) and sound work as expected with Skype. The wireless LAN works like a dream, like the LAN cable port and the USP 3G wireless dongle. Printing to an IPP printer server is fine, as is also printing directly via USB cable. The bluetooth is perfect.

I really can't find anything that doesn't work. This particular machine was infested with trojans (e.g. Festi) when it had XP on it. Now with linux, it lives a new life, without trojans and spambot zombie software.

Alan U. Kennington, 2012/11/24 11:27

I've just tried to put OpenSuSE 12.2 (the boxed set of DVDs) onto an Asus Eee 1005HA which I bought about October 2009. (I used an external DVD reader on a USB port for this.) The result was that everything was extremely easy and straightforward until the installation reached the point where it wanted to re-boot. When the re-boot was attempted from the hard disk, there was a simple message saying that the re-boot had failed. I could not find any way to get around this. I then did the entire installation again, this time using more default settings than before. But the result was still a hard disk which would not boot at all.

I'd appreciate any hints on what I could try to get the installed software to be bootable.

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